News Platforms & Sources

The declining public trust in the news media and polarization of news audiences have profound effects on civic life.

Here is how the average adult Twitter user in the U.S. tweeted about the news in 2021, as well as how these patterns have changed since 2015.

Fully 70% of U.S. adult Twitter news consumers say they have used Twitter to follow live news events, up from 59% who said this in 2015.

About half (48%) of U.S. adults say they get news from social media “often” or “sometimes,” a 5 percentage point decline compared with 2020. More than half of Twitter users get news on the site regularly.

Roughly half of Americans say that they have been getting some (30%) or a lot (18%) of news and info about COVID-19 vaccines on social media.

In the U.S., roughly nine-in-ten adults (93%) get at least some news online (either via mobile or desktop), and the online space has become a host for the digital homes of both legacy news outlets and new, “born on the web” news outlets.

While newspapers have seen steep job losses from 2008 to 2020, digital-native news organizations have seen considerable gains.

Newspapers are a critical part of the American news landscape, but they have been hard hit as more and more Americans consume news digitally.

Differences within each party on views of foreign policy emerge based on where Americans turn for political news.

Majorities of Americans support an array of measures to address climate change but stop short of a full break with fossil fuels.